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My name is
Crawford Matthews.

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I am a Research Associate
for outreach.

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I work at the German Historical Museum
in the Education and Outreach department.

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and I am responsible for
managing the project.

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My name is Brigitte Vogel
and I am responsible

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for educational
and outreach activities in

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exhibitions at the
German Historical Museum.

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The idea behind
the outreach project is

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that young people
who are not typically

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part of the classical
DHM visitors,

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simply because it is
a historical museum,

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they then come to us and say

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ah, here our questions are asked or the

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exhibition themes,
which are inherently

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very interesting,
are reinterpreted again

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and I was possibly even
able to give my own opinion

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on the Enlightenment from
hundreds of years ago,

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and all museum visitors, can read it

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and are perhaps
prompted to think.

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We have four groups
developing their own ideas.

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So we try to involve
them in the work.

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It shouldn't be such a
hierarchical encounter,

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but an encounter
on an equal footing,

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where we say, we have an exhibition,
we have an idea

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but we also value
the perspectives that you have,

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and using that,
to enhance our knowledge and

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to supplement the exhibition,

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making the exhibition
more interesting and perhaps

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more relevant for a
wider range

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of potential visitors,
I find very appealing.